Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-08-06
4 WHITE DEMON.
One of the Many Fiendish Acts of Al streeter. the Apache Chief.
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 aI noticed ID the San Francisco Ex- aminer a day or two ago." said Michael Garden, who has made his for fortune in Chihuahua silver mines. "an article about Al Streeter, the white chief of the Apaches.
 "Many tales of his cruelties have been published, but one-thst which l think inc most horrible of all his crimes-I have never seen m print.
 "About seven years ago John Mans field came to Arizona from San Frah- cisco with his wife and little boy. They arrived at Clifson safely, and as they were ln a hurry to reach s little place called Solomon's, HbOu. ninety miles away, where Mansfield wes fo go to work, they took the trail over the hills from Clifton.
 "A young prospector-his name have orgoiton-undertook to pilot them over the trail. Their first days travel took them to the banks of Eagle Creek, n small, though rapid stream which flows into the Gila- There they made camp. within few miles of the San Carlos Reservation.
 "Though there were rumors that a hand of rensgades had left the reservR- tiou, there was no positive news of the uprising, and the little party had DO | fear. As they were preparing supper there suddenly came into the camp a white man on horseback in the ordinary gsrb of prospector. Mansfield and his wife at once recognized the newcomer as Al Streeter, who had gone Co school with both of them m San Francisco. They knew nothing of his career since he had left this city.
 "Streeter, though known to every one ou the frontier by reputation. has been seen by few ey cept when disguised with vsr-psint, and the young man who sc- companied the Mansfields did not con meet the rene gade leader with their vls- itor. The new conner ate supper win them, but declined to stop at the camp over night. He did. however, stay and talk awhile soout the old times.
 At daylight Streeter made his ap- pesrance again and shared thelr break fast. Suddenly he walked few yards out of camp snd uttered acry-imitatinG a wild turkey. In a moment the camp was in possession of a gang of Apaches.
 "The two men tried to use their Win chesters, but found that they had been tampered with and would not work.
 ''The Indisns finally secured the four persons who composed the htile party and carried them bound to the top of one of the high bluffs that at that point shut in the river. From the edge of the bluff to the river's edge Is & sheer de- scent of probably seventy feet There 5treeter left the hspless victims to the Araches and walked away,
 "Over the precipice. in plain sight ot the helpless mother and father, the In dians threw the little boy. The mother was the next victim. and she was killed I-before her husband-in the horrible manner in which baud of Apsches al- ways slsy the females who fall into their hands.
 "The next amusement they determined on was the old cruelty of running the gauntlet. Tie young prospector was the i yictin1a chosen.
 "He. howevSr, knowing that be kad no chance to e<cape.. soon ss- his bonds were united. made a'yush and sprsng over he cliff. following .the little boy; Seeing him going over the friRhtiui place, the Apsches gave hIm no further concern. But he was not killed out right. He struck fairly ID the water. and the shock was so much lsssened that a broken leg was the only apparent damage.
 With his crippled limb that poor fellow urAvled fifteen miles Co a ranch.
 There he died, after telling what have inst told you. was one of the men to whom he told it.
 Several days later We went to where the Indians had stopped on top of the bluff and found the bones Of poor Mans field and his wife. The former was lying ing face downward Oa snthill. Ills arms were extended. the wrists fastened to stakes driver in the groun1. He had been tied down and left to be eaten alive by the -ed ants. They had cleaned all of the flesh from his bones in those fewdsys."